The Salvific City: The New Jerusalem and the Moral Imaginary of Urban Built Environments

This exploratory essay examines the cultural assumptions at the intersection of our multi-sensory lived experience in contemporary urban built environments, the impact of that experience on our imaginative world for our assumptions about a normative urban environment – what I call a moral imaginary...

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主要作者: Martin, Thomas W. (Author)
格式: 電子 Article
語言:English
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出版: Brill 2023
In: Religion & theology
Year: 2023, 卷: 30, 發布: 1/2, Pages: 72-97
Further subjects:B heterotopia
B Book of Revelation
B Environmental Ethics
B human built environments
B the New Jerusalem
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總結:This exploratory essay examines the cultural assumptions at the intersection of our multi-sensory lived experience in contemporary urban built environments, the impact of that experience on our imaginative world for our assumptions about a normative urban environment – what I call a moral imaginary – , how imagination guides urban construction, and the Christian West’s most normative utopian vision of urbanity, the New Jerusalem. This exploration takes place within an eclectic amalgam of theory focused on environmental ethics. The overall goal, using ecological hermeneutics, is to retrieve the voice of the Earth from beneath the streets of gold. Can the New Jerusalem be imagined as a city that offers salvation to the Earth?
ISSN:1574-3012
Contains:Enthalten in: Religion & theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15743012-bja10052